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Leadership. more than 40 million u.s. airline passengers are expected to go through airport security checkpoints this holiday. but this tsa security director says you may not be as safe as you think. >> what they're doing is injecting danger into the system. >> reporter: jay brainard is the top tsa official in his state and has been with the agency for 17 years. he says tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to shorten wait times. they reduced the sensitivity on all walk through metal detechtes across america. >> they reduced it to speed up lines. >> how do you know? >> there's a memo...

Years. said the tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to cut down on wait times. he said one of the things they're doing is reducing the concentration. >> they're reducing the concentration of finding metal. >> this order came out in 2013, quote, changing all walkthrough metal detector lanes to the tsa precheck setting to normalize the passenger experience. brainard says the practice continues today and he worried bomb-making components could go undetected. >> you'd have a 30-minute wait time and they treat it like a national health crisis. he said they've disabled

Whistle-blower says airports across the u.s. is becoming unsafe. >> in an exclusive report, that whistle-blower is telling cnn the tsa is cutting standards to make lines move faster. >> this tsa whistle-blower is coming forward because he says the concerns he raised over the last couple of years have not been addressed. to put it simply, he says the agency is putting speed over security. he said the tsa officers on the front lines are not to blame. the screening changes, he said, have come from tsa leadership. more than 40 million u.s. airline passengers are expect god through airport security...

Counsel ordered the complaints to be investigated. >> my biggest fear is having something happen that costs american lives and i didn't step up and put a stop to it or at least try. because it's going happen. it's not a question of if. it's a question of when. we are long over-dow for another attack. >> tsa did take action of one of brainard's complaints. he says they continued to use an ineffective test to determine if new hires were colorblind, a disqualifying condition. >> if you had something in a bag and if something were colorblind, they wouldn't see the bomb if it were the only thing in...

Technology. this internal memo state as of last month the x-ray machines should be operated without the auto algorithm enabled. >> a box will come around and say stop and take a look at this, that box is no longer on the screen. tsa has made changes to the settings which really hampers the ability of the operator. >> tsa will say this is preczech. >> they've put millions of passengers into precheck that are not precheck, so you do not have an entire population in precheck that are vetted. >> david pekoski says they're not doing that. >> rest assured that we do provide the level of security tha...